Describe open-ended art concepts.
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Related Outcomes
- Describe and Demonstrate arts integration strategies to develop verbal and written language.
- Demonstrate an understanding of concepts within the activity and content area for the visual arts for school-age.
- Define active play in the early childhood classroom and describe its benefits for young children.
- Describe common myths and misconceptions about time management in child care.
- Define differentiated instruction in early childhood education and describe how it may look in the classroom.
- Describe the importance of monitoring the family child care environment for potential risks.
- Describe ways to analyze classrooms for an anti-bias approach.
- Describe how language is one of the many ways through which culture affects development.
- Describe the primary learning centers and their components.
- Identify ways to support children’s development using the arts.
- Describe strategies to incorporate mathematics into teaching practices.
- Describe the stages of grief and the different ways children react to grief and stress.
- Describe Piaget’s sensorimotor and preoperational stages of cognitive development.
- Describe infant/toddler nutritional needs
- Describe the impact of culture on infant and toddler development
- Describe nonverbal communication as it relates to coaching and mentoring.
- Identify the signs of illness in children and describe when a child should be excluded from care
- Describe new methods to increase the positive emotional climate within a childcare program.
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